The adventurersBenedict Allen, British explorer and TV presenterGuyana: I am hoping to reach the remotest jungle on the planet, which seems to be in southern Guyana. Here, jaguars roam without fear of man, there are lengthy anacondas and other great beauties and beasts.We are perhaps the last generation who have the privilege to be able to trek off into the Great Unknown like this.

The adventurersGary Arndt, Travel bloggerThe Yasawa Islands, Fiji: A small archipelago on the west side of Fiji’s main island of Viti Levu, where the movies The Blue Lagoon and Castaway were shot. You can find bures (bungalows) for $20-30 a night, and you can dive in some of the clearest water in the world.

Travel insidersJohnny Bealby, managing director, Wild Frontiers.Kashmir: The centuries old holiday idyll is back on the traveller’s map, offering pristine trekking, amazing skiing, extraordinary accommodation and unsurpassed relaxation. But is it safe? Not yet, according to the FCO: militants, they say, still harbour aspirations of an independent state which gives rise to sporadic violence. Although that is undoubtedly true, I believe these risks have now reduced to acceptable levels.

Travel insidersHiedi Hutchinson, marketing manager, Imaginative TravellerColombia: One of South America’s best kept secrets, Colombia is a colourful and vibrant country with plenty of highlights, from ancient cities to the jungle-covered coast. Explore the Tayrona National Park with its block howler monkeys, iguanas and jaguars and forests running down to the beach.

Guidebook gurusTony Wheeler, co-founder of Lonely PlanetKimberley, Australia: Tucked away in Australia's largely undiscovered north-west, the Kimberley Coastal Camp is as remote as it gets. Located on the mangrove-fringed Admiralty Gulf, the camp is comfortable Spartan: toilets and showers are open air and your room has a sand floor. The location is stunning, the food terrific (fishing for dinner is the big attraction), but for me it’s the art that blows me away. The country around the camp is an open-air gallery for two schools of Aboriginal art: the colourful Wandjina art and the mysterious Bradshaw or Gwion Gwion paintings.

Guidebook gurusJonathan Knight,
founder of the Cool Camping guidesUK:Thanks to the ongoing national love affair with camping, a new generation of luxury campsites has spawned innovative accommodation in the UK, including Country House Hideouts, all of which will be sited within some of England’s finest country estates. The first is at Hamptworth Estate in the New Forest

Party peoplePete Tong, BBC Radio 1 DJLos Angeles: Forget Goa, Ibiza and Ayia Napa, LA is the place to be for electronic music right now. Top of my list, and where I’m Djing, is the Electronic Daisy Carnival at the LA Memorial Coliseum and Exposition Park on 26 and 27 June. It attracts over 100,000 people and features some of the best electronic music in the world.

Party peopleNick Stevenson, news editor, MixmagMalta: Of all the emerging clubbing locations, Malta is the most surprising. Open-air clubs like Gianpula, with a capacity of 4,000, put roofed-up Ibiza clubs to shame.

Critic's choiceDeyan Sudjic, director of the Design MuseumShanghai: If there’s one city in the world that doesn’t need an expo to persuade you to go, it’s Shanghai. It has skyscrapers with tops like giant pineapples, a Maglev train from the airport that can cruise at 300 miles an hour, and a riverfront lined with art deco towers that feel like one of JG Ballard’s more hallucinogenic writings. But, if you go between May and October, you will find the biggest Expo of all time, Shanghai’s answer to Beijing’s Olympics architectural fireworks.

Critic's choiceGuy Woodward, editor of Decanter magazineSlovenia: It has yet to make it on to the itineraries of many wine lovers, but this could be the year the Yugoslavian offshoot starts to gain prominence. Sweet whites are currently its forte, although the dry whites aren’t far behind and the country is already well set up for wine tourists, with several tasting rooms, guest houses and restaurants in and around the main wine regions of Primorska and Podravje.

Green gurusToby Sawday, managing director of Sawdays.co.uk, and presenter of BBC2’s It’s Not Easy Being GreenAnnie's Cabin, Ludlow: I did rather a lot of travelling abroad last year so I’m planning to spend more time in the UK in 2010. Annie’s Cabin is a self-catering eco lodge near Ludlow, Shropshire. It’s a squeaky green new-build made from Douglas Fir logs from mid-Wales. I’ll be looking forward to loading up with foody bits from Slow Ludlow, doing some walking and not much else. Perfect.

Green gurusRichard Hammond, founder of greentraveller.co.uk and co-author of Clean Breaks – 500 New Ways to See the World (Rough Guides, £18.99)South Tyrol, Italy: I travelled by train to the mountains of South Tyrol to catch the early snow in December and can’t wait to get back there in the summer. Tucked beneath the sunny south side of the Italian Alps in the village of Sand in Taufers is Naturhotel Moosmair – whose interpretation of green is all about serving fantastic local food and enjoying the outdoors (snowshoeing and cross-country skiing in the winter, hiking and mountain biking in the summer) followed by a long soak in a herbal sauna. Thanks to the new high-speed train line east of Paris, you can now reach Innsbruck (via Zurich) in a day.

Family expertJustine Roberts, co-founder of mumsnet.comUK: Look no further than log cabins. Forest Holidays provides cabin holidays in five stunning locations – Strathyre (pictured), Argyll, Cropton, Keldy and Deerpark, with a brand new site set to open in the Forest of Dean this September. The comfortable cabins fall somewhere between a posh ski chalet and an upmarket log cabin – many with luxuries such as a balcony hot tub overlooking a lake and a Wii games console. Friendly wardens will organise activities such as walks, wildlife- spotting and arts and crafts for the children, and most have bicycle hire too.